Draft evasion
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Draft evasion or conscription evasion is avoiding a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces. Sometimes draft evasion involves refusing to comply with the military draft laws. Ill
Anti-draft meeting held by women in New York City, 1917
US Secretary of War Newton Baker drawing the first number in the World War I draft lottery, 1917
Tribunal for conscientious objectors in Britain during World War II
Muhammad Ali refused induction in 1967.
Dick Cheney
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Richard Bruce Cheney was an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. Considered the main archite
Draft evasion
…column by E. J. Dionne in The Washington Post, by 2006 politicians whom opponents had accused of improperly avoiding the draft included George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton. In a 1970s High Times article, American singer-songwriter Ted Nugent stated that he took crystal meth, and urinated and defecated…
Official portrait, 2003
White House Chief of Staff Cheney, 1976
Representative Cheney in 1984
Cheney meets with President Ronald Reagan, July 1983